Ethics and moral philosophy

This book examines the moral role of news media practitioners and organizations, and applies a modified philosophical account of Virtue Ethics as a framework for the role of journalists-and journalism organizations-in public life.

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR).

The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace.

Most people intuitively understand the nature of morality; this tends to belie the fact that morality is more complex, controversial and interesting than generally appreciated.

This book considers the cultural legacy of the Keynesian Revolution in economics.

This book presents the concept of 'unstaging' war as a strategic response to the failure of the discourse and institutions of peace.

This book engages with what are widely recognized as the two core dimensions of emotion.

How should we understand the relationship between Christian ethics and religious ethics?

A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

Die Prinzipien der christlichen Sozialethik haben im Laufe der abendländischen Geschichte ganz wesentlich zur ethisch-normativen Orientierung und zur sozialen Ausgestaltung marktwirtschaftlicher Ordnungssysteme beigetragen.

This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology).

This book explores the delicate interconnections between law and economics, especially as regards island entitlements under international maritime law.

This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology.

In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different values in media companies and media managers' decisions.

This book examines the ethics of virtual reality (VR) technologies.

This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do.

This book covers practical and philosophical aspects of Engineering, paying special attention to the social impacts of emerging technologies.

This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse.

Medienethische Richtlinien wie der Pressekodex des Deutschen Presserates bieten Journalisten ohne Zweifel eine wichtige Entscheidungshilfe bei ethischen Abwägungen in Fragen von Recherche und Veröffentlichung.

Das Buch untersucht die inhaltlichen und strukturellen Herausforderungen, vor der unsere Gesellschaft angesichts einer stetig steigenden Lebenserwartung und einer zunehmenden Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Lebensentwürfe steht.

Über das Phänomen Börse herrscht seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2008 eine anhaltende gesellschaftspolitische, nicht selten emotional und polemisch geführte Diskussion.

This book presents a variety of discussions from different countries about regulations and applications of ethics in business practice.

This book challenges conventional notions of biological life and death in the area of robotics, discussing issues such as machine consciousness, autonomous AI, and representations of robots in popular culture.

Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a 'world as design' over the natural world.

Albert Camus dijo: «Nos asfixiamos entre gente que cree tener toda la razón», y muchos de nosotros sentimos lo mismo hoy, cuando el aire se está volviendo verdaderamente irrespirable.

Dieses eBook: "Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Cuando intentamos abordar su difícil encuentro, la ética suele hacer su aparición como remedio contra los defectos de una política imperfecta que siempre la rechaza.

Irracionalidad es un relato ambicioso y cautivante que echa luz sobre la sinrazón en un momento en que el mundo parece haberse vuelto loco.

Del Propio Ser al Propio Querer es una dialéctica que pone en juego la tensión que se genera en el desarrollo de la vida entre el deber, que dicta una moral ciega y seductora con su saber listo y terminado, y el querer, que, con su incertidumbre socrática, busca el conocimiento délfico que rompe todas las cadenas del corazón.

Ein Grundkurs hat die Aufgabe, philosophisches Basiswissen zu vermitteln, mit dessen Hilfe die Studierenden sich in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion orientieren können.

Gerechtigkeit gilt als Kardinaltugend für ein gutes und richtiges Leben.

Bei der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe handelt es sich um das immer bedeutsamer werdende Handlungsfeld der öffentlichen Verantwortung für das Aufwachsen von Kindern und Jugendlichen in unserer Gesellschaft mit stetig zunehmenden ethischen Konfliktfeldern.

Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing-the Nicomachean Ethics-in a lively new abridged translationAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing.

A través de reveladoras historias, esta obra pretende provocar una reflexión sobre los efectos de la incivilidad en nuestras vidas, convirtiéndose en una concisa guía para sobre cómo vivir mejor.

The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the greatest threat now facing humanity.

The thought of Immanuel Kant is fundamental to understanding Western philosophy.

In developing a new theory of political and moral community, J.

In Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy, political philosopher Adam Lovett argues that when it comes to democratic ideals, the United States is a failed democracy.

Released in 2014, this was the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: what is moral motivation?

Levinas formuliert die strukturell einzig mögliche Kritik an Hegel, indem er eine Dimension menschlicher Subjektivität freilegt, die von der dialektischen Totalität vorausgesetzt werden muss, ohne in sie aufgehoben werden zu können.

An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animalsand our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them.

An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animalsand our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them.

The social status of dogs has changed dramatically in the past 75 years.